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I am not an Intel employee, but I play one on television. I started playing with computers when I was 16 writing a blackjack game using Hollerith cards on an IBM 1130. I've made my career choices based on potential fun to be had, which led to a 30+ year career working for SuperComputer manufacturers, and then to "teaching career"++. I know the cake is a lie, but the Fantoccini approach to technology is not a lie. The ++ in my work as a computer science professor at Contra Costa College, is my work with SC Education (http://sc-education.org/), educating faculty about parallel and distributed computing, and the burgeoning metaverse exploring how to meld HPC and the verse (http://sciencesim.com/). All this inexorably led me to volunteer my time on this blog. BTW my name is Tom Murphy, an ever popular name previously Intel claimed by another, hence my lupine pseudonym. |
Sisterhood of CS
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on October 24, 2011 at 10:17 am
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It might seem a bit ironic me being bursting with pride at being a member of a sisterhood, what with me being a guy who never even had a sister, but I am. The Sisterhood of CS is the fifth Computer Science club for which I am advisor. Perhaps being advisor means I am not [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: anime, App Developer, clubs, computational math, Gaming, Manycore Testing Lab, parallel programming, women in computer science
Graceful Enhancement
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on September 16, 2011 at 7:21 am
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Matt Wolf and I were walking from our hotel to IDF 2011 this morning and we were talking about various architectures and what we each preferred. Matt described his perception and I said that sounds like graceful enhancement and he said that was a great name for it. It was a great mutually derived word [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: data, Dreaming, graceful enhancement, IDF 2011, Scheme, Truthiness
Math flies like the wind
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on September 14, 2011 at 9:24 am
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I was preparing a post on algorithmic patterns and how they aid the process of being able to solve computational problems using paallel techniques when I came across the iPod version of Math flyer. Math and Computer Science can be both impenetrable, incomprehensible, and kinda a drudge when you don't look at it the right [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: Computational Thinking, Math Literacy
Paper Parallel and the Thousand dear Courses
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on September 14, 2011 at 9:23 am
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Paper Mario was pretty popular and I think the upcoming special issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education will also be pretty popular, especially since it will be focused on Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Computation. We are at a cusp where there is a great amount of productive churn surrounding how and what to teach [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: acm, concurrent, distributed, parallel programming, special issue
Parallel Educational Appliance: Once upon a Mattress
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on May 4, 2011 at 10:18 am
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Convergence of good ideas into a coalesced one is normative for this millennia. It has has happened with PDA, camera, phone, and portable game system becoming today's smartphone; which is now converging with touchscreen notepad and keyboard into a next ubiquitous device. This blog post highlights convergence of hardware, software and curricula into a lowcost [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: BCCD, CSERD, EAPF, Educational Appliance, LittleFe, microgrant, parallelism, Tom Murphy
It's a Snap to find the Scratch to BYOB in class
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on March 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm
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Sure I knew my friend Dan Garcia has been working to re-establish the joy and beauty of computer science to a whole new generation. And yeah, talking with enthusiastic Dan convinced inspired me to develop a parallel class at my college. Little did I know that the language to which he was gravitating was going [...]
Category: Academic
Tags: Brian Harvey, BYOB 3, Dan Garcia, Scratch, SIGCSE, Snap, Tom Murphy
Half Empty Dream Cup of Concrete Roses
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on February 1, 2011 at 8:35 pm
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Paul Steinberg's Black History month blog post about dreams propelled me to write my first blog post in over a year. My initial urge was to lament the struggle in retaining and reaching Black males in Computer Science. My friend Byron Robertson is getting his PhD on this very topic. Paul and I interviewed Byron [...]
Category: Academic
Think Globally, Act Locally: or Display Links that Tap into the educational Orchard
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on March 17, 2010 at 8:46 am
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"MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS." These were Ernest Shackleton's words advertising for crew to accompany him on his adventure to the South Pole. If we substituted "men and women" for "men", we might be [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: academic community, distributed and parallel programming, Gaming, Intel Xeon processor, LittleAl, LittleFe
Viral Education
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on December 4, 2009 at 8:50 am
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A new goal for my educational efforts coalesced today: fostering viral education. I've known for awhile that I could sometimes infect a student; get them working on a problem/project/idea, where they spend lots of time outside of class on this effort. It hadn't occurred to me till today that this notion could be generalized to [...]
Category: Academic, Software Tools
Tags: Academic, Add new tag, computational science, Computer Science, parallelism, Tom Murphy, viral education
In the company of friends
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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You are hereby invited to a gathering on November 17 at 5:30 pm in room C124 of the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. We are having a panel discussion focused on incorporating parallelism into the Computer Science curriculum. Of course, you might need to purchase a day pass to SC09 to attend, if you are [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming, Software Tools
Tags: panel discussion, SC09, tee shirts
A program Harold Hill might like
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on November 3, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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I just finished writing a 76 byte program. I gave my Computer Architecture midterm yesterday. One of the four problems was to predict the output of a 17 byte program. This is with an assembly language where the bulk of the instructions are three bytes. The correct answer is of course 42, once the unconditional [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming, Uncategorized
Tags: Academic, High performance computing, Parallel Prog. & Multi-Core, performance
When is a case study not a case study?
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on July 16, 2009 at 7:00 am
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When it isn't. When I was a student I typically ignored case studies from my textbooks, as do my students, as well they should. I have not taken the time, a fair hunk of time, to prepare assignments based on the case studies. This is the only realistic way to help students absorb them. I [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Academic, capstone, interdisciplinary
What's in a name? That which we call a contest, by any other name would succeed as gloriously.
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on June 27, 2009 at 8:34 pm
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We just successfully wrote and ran a student contest for TeraGrid ‘09. It was an exhausting satisfying experience. The questions we came up with are at http://wiki.sc-education.org/index.php/Tg09-student-contest. We had nine fascinating diverse teams ranging from an all high school team through an all grad school one, with many interesting permutations and combinations of high school, [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
What are students worth?
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on June 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm
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Don't get me wrong, I won't solicit you to traffic in students, though I do insidiously and relentlessly labor to permanently hook students on concepts and ideas. The interview with Charlie Peck prompted this blog. For he is the one infecting me with new ways of helping students. At Earlham, students are involved in all [...]
Category: Uncategorized
I Cuda written more, but unlike Polonius, I actually will be brief
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on June 16, 2009 at 10:58 am
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Thanks to Wen-Mei for a delightful chat. I found your site, http://courses.ece.illinois.edu/ece498/al/, with the curricula for your Programming Massively Parallel Processors course. This curricula fosters students acquiring practical experience, typically learned toiling hours to days in trenches with little sleep, and less coffee. I plan to look over his mathematically prodigious mini-case studies to seek [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: "instruction level lock-step parallelism", grad students, simd
Instruction Level Lock-step Parallelism on desert islands
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on May 28, 2009 at 2:58 pm
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I told myself that all my posts here would be crosstaggable to both academic and multi-core, but Henry Neeman has got me all riled up. Half this blog will NOT be about multi-core, but half will; it is thus a semi-multi-core post. Henry is Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: "Steven Colbert", adventure, curricula, GPU, Hamlet, Macbeth, nomenclature, simd, workshops
The Best Stuff on Earth is not limited to beverage manufacturing
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on May 22, 2009 at 8:17 am
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I was reminded to cite some of the good stuff that is out there, on which I am involved and/or rely, as well as to solicit references to your good stuff. The week-long SC summer workshops are focused on undergraduate computational science education. Computational science where a scientist/expert makes sure a right problem is being [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: "best practices", curricula, workshops
Greetings Programs!
By wolfmurphy (18 posts) on May 20, 2009 at 1:12 pm
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I don't promise that is my last cheesy Tron reference, but I can promise lots of cheesy references. My students get the shorter end of the stick, cause they have to put up with it for 18 weeks at a time. Blogs and blog posts end up having a life of their own, serendipitously in [...]